doctall41

Would still love to get invited by WN to Pre-Check.
I fly them weekly and it would be nice.
Any WN employees reading this (Nicole?)

rsteinmetz70112

Has Anyone been invited since the initial group?

tusphotog

If you fly WN that much, wouldn't it be easier to get a known traveler number?

CDKing

Not even Gary Kelly can give you precheck

leeinct

I just got my KTN. Even after the Precheck opt in, I decided to go through the process (my employer pays regardless). Since, I have been 100% precheck.

rsteinmetz70112

He could invite you. The invitations are under control of the airlines, final approval rests with TSA.

mke9499

I am finding that more and more are receiving TSA Pre on their WN BP, without registering; some do not even have any airline status. None of those have any KTN, either. Their ages run from 20's, 30's, 40's and up.

It seems that once you receive TSA Pre in this manner, it's quite likely to keep repeating...at least, according to my casual observation.

rsteinmetz70112

^^^ I noticed the same thing.

abaheti

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This is all in line with what TSA has announced publicly. They're refining their search criteria and using "factors" to determine who is low/high-risk even without doing GE interviews. They want to move as many people in Pre as possible. What these magic factors are, who knows, if they told us they would have to kill us, I assume...

ursine1

My understanding is that this is temporary, with the goal to give people a "free sample" of Pre prior to a push in sales.

rsteinmetz70112

If they reach their goals it might be easier to go through the regular screening. I've seen that happen occasionally already.

I actually think this is a way for TSA to back off some of the dumb things they've been doing without actually admitting it.

joshua362

Monday morning 5:30 AM at ISP, I tried to enter the BS/A List Fly-By lane as usual and the TSA guy said "let me check for pre-check". I was approved (first time) and he pointed me to the end of a long line. No one in the Fly-By lane so I declined. The guy was surprised and muttered something like "you'll have to take off your shoes". It was a ridiculous situation, I cleared security in 2 minutes any way.

I guess its more valuable at larger airports?

CDKing

I wish all the Southwest precheck threads would be mergerd. From the other thread about random precheck on southwest. TSA website explains the ways those without KTN's get pre

leeinct

I asked the TSA folks at the Indy signup center when I did my application and they stated that they are allowing folks a "taste" of precheck and eventually (by late summer) they will be scaling back the freebies.

abaheti

It depends on the layout at each airport and which other airlines share the Pre-Check space with WN. In many airports, I find myself standing, staring, trying to decide which way to go -- longer Pre line or shorter status line or general line, depending on what's available. I've also found Pre turned off a lot at BUR, so now always pack as if I'm going to have to remove liquids, laptop, etc anyway so I don't have to dig through my suitcase.

As with picking which line in the grocery store will actually move more quickly, I often (usually?) guess wrong. :-) My wife and I sometimes make it a game, one of us goes through Pre carrying the liquids and the other through regular and takes off their shoes. Our experience is that it is 50-50.